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SALAAM – On 15 May, a passenger
flight ferrying humanitarian and health workers into Tanzania is set to arrive
from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. This is the first flight of its kind since commercial
air services were suspended in Tanzania in an attempt to curb the spread of the
coronavirus.
The
passenger air service, run by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), is
part of its global system to provide logistics support for the global COVID-19 response.
The service ensures humanitarian organizations can
provide the people and cargo needed to sustain assistance operations that
millions of vulnerable people depend on across the world.
The
air bridge system is based around Global Humanitarian
Response Hubs in Guangzhou (China), Liège (Belgium) and Dubai (UAE) where
supplies are being manufactured – and regional hubs in Ethiopia, Ghana, South
Africa, Malaysia, Panama and Dubai. Flights operate between global and regional
hubs, and a fleet of smaller planes move cargo and humanitarian personnel into
specific countries, such as Tanzania. Once the service is fully operational,
WFP expects to maintain regular flights to key locations around the world.
“As the leading UN agency for logistics,
WFP has a key role to support the Government and the whole humanitarian community
in ensuring supplies and staff are able to reach where they are needed,” said Michael Dunford, WFP Representative in Tanzania. “Our
experience in running logistics operations has allowed WFP to adapt our
programmes to provide common logistics services to support the global
humanitarian and health response.”
In
Tanzania, flights for humanitarian and health workers are expected to take
place every week. Upon arrival in Tanzania, passengers will follow the
Government of Tanzania’s regulations for quarantine.
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